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The web page provides the full text of the Virginia Constitution adopted in 1776, which established the powers of the governor, Council of State, and General Assembly. It also includes the Bill of Rights, which declared the natural rights of the people and the limits of government.
EXCERPTS FROM. First Virginia Constitution, June 29, 1776. IN A General Convention, Begun and holden at the Capitol, in the City of Williamsburg, on Monday the sixth day of May, one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, and continued, by adjournments to the [blank] day of June following.
The 1776 Constitution declared the dissolution of the rule of Great Britain over Virginia and accused England's King George III of establishing a "detestable and insupportable tyranny". It also established separation of governmental powers, with the creation of the bicameral Virginia General Assembly as the legislative body of the state and the ...
1776 Constitution. The Convention of 1776 met in the Capitol in Williamsburg from May 6 through July 5, 1776. On 15 May the elected delegates unanimously instructed Virginia’s representatives in the Continental Congress to introduce a resolution of independence; on June 12 they unanimously adopted the Virginia Declaration of Rights; and on ...
The 1776 constitution left the newly-independent state with an official, established church until passage of the Act for Establishing Religious Freedom in Virginia in 1786. The governor was not designated as the head of the Anglican church in Virginia, to replace King George III in that position.
29 wrz 2016 · Virginia's Declaration of Rights was drawn upon by Thomas Jefferson for the opening paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence. It was widely copied by the other colonies and became the basis of the Bill of Rights. Written by George Mason, it was adopted by the Virginia Constitutional Convention on June 12, 1776.
Constitution of Virginia. A DECLARATION OF RIGHTS made by the good people of Virginia in the exercise of their sovereign powers, which rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government.
